(HealthDay)—The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday backed the emergency use approval of Pfizer’s booster shot for high-risk kids between the ages of 5 and 11, along with shortening the time period between a second dose and a booster shot from six months to five months. Both approvals came from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on […]

Alzheimer's: Dr Chris discusses the early signs of condition We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info An estimated 55 million people live with dementia around the globe, […]

When athletes experience the state of flow or are in the ‘zone’ they sometimes describe the feeling as one of effortlessness. Although their exertions may feel effortless, what their bodies achieve in terms of performance can be extraordinary. In recent years, an increasing number of sport psychologists recommend that athletes practice mindfulness as part of their mental preparation for competing. […]

A hockey fan is getting praise after encouraging an NHL team staff member to get a suspicious-looking mole on his neck checked out for cancer. Nadia Popovici, a 22-year-old volunteer nursing assistant, was at a hockey game between the Vancouver Canucks and the Seattle Kraken on October 23 when she noticed an unusual mole on the neck of 47-year-old Brian […]

The pandemic has put a severe strain on healthcare workers, both physically and mentally. Keeping healthcare workers safe and healthy is key to maintaining a highly functioning healthcare system that meets patient needs. Source: Read Full Article

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Researchers from the U.S. and Canada have teamed up to develop and validate a model for predicting end-stage liver disease (ESLD) in people living with HIV (PWH). “This model of readily accessible clinical parameters predicted ESLD in a large diverse population of PWH,” they write in JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. ESLD remains […]

Minnesota has the lowest age-adjusted heart disease mortality in the U.S.; yet, African American adults 35 to 63 have nearly double the rate of death from cardiovascular disease, compared to their white counterparts. Study findings show that basic health beliefs and demographics, such as age, sex, marital status and level of education attained, were associated with the risk factors for […]

Researchers at the IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology) developed an acoustic virtual reality-based archery game, enabling blind people to experience for the first time this type of technology, which is typically focused on vision. The researchers’ aim was to understand how blind people move and orient themselves in space, and they did so in an engaging way. […]

In a large-scale study among Danish children, no statistically significant association was found between maternal hormonal contraception use and increased risk for central nervous system (CNS) tumors in their offspring. The study was based on population-based registry data, and included 1.1 million children age 19 or younger born in Denmark between 1996 and 2014. The study, by Marie Hargreave, PhD, […]

The volume of prescription opioids dispensed at retail pharmacies in the United States dropped by 21% in recent years amid efforts to reduce unnecessary use of the painkillers, but the rate of decline varied greatly among types of patients and by type of clinician, a study found. In a brief report published December 28 by the Annals of Internal Medicine, […]